information needed by policymakers, investors, and other interested stakeholders. To better understand the current health care …

the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …

The Department of Health formulates and implements health care financing strategies. To aid the agency, this paper … provides baseline figures on the parameters of the entire health care environment. In particular, the following parameters in … the health sectors are studied: the regulatory institutions, the legal mandates of these institutions, the set of laws …

From the first part of this paper, results from critical appraisal and description of economic impacts on health policy … on policy. The second part includes the development of self-instructional manual on cost-effectiveness for health center …

This paper investigates the significant contribution of private health insurance to the Philippine health care finance …. Realization of full benefits from the health care funds depends on addressing the constraints to its full development. Hence …, there is a need for the government to support and provide incentives for health insurance and business development. …

relation to health care of the urban poor communities in Pasay and Novaliches. This investigates the communities’ demographic … characteristics, their perception towards health care and their willingness to participate in risk-sharing associated with health …

Due to tight fiscal budget, health care planners have started to explore alternative financing mechanisms. These … alternatives can be effectively implemented given thorough understanding of mechanisms that direct household demand for health care …. This paper investigates the factors of households’ health seeking behavior to determine the implications for health care …

conducted among families in rural Leyte, “Determinants of Maternal Health Care Utilization among Rural Women: The Case of Three … Barangays in Leyte” and the urban poor of Metro Manila, “Health Seeking Behavior among Families in High Risk Urban Communities ….” The discussion, however, is limited to the utilization of health care services among rural and urban poor families …

There are a number of issues regarding women’s health, women’s reproductive behavior, fertility impact of reproductive … health programs and the effect of gender roles and expectations in these factors. This paper attempts to put together … of gender bias in the utilization of health care services. Planning and maternal care are deemed to have positive impact …